Contours of African American Politics
By: edited by Georgia A. Persons
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781315080406
Subjects: African Americans; Politics and government; Race relations; Political aspects; Noirs américains; Politique et gouvernement; Relations raciales; Aspect politique
Description: "Contours of African American Politics chronicles the systematic study of African American politics and its subsequent recognition as an established field of scholarly inquiry. African American politics emanates from the demands of the prolonged struggle for black liberation and empowerment. Hence, the study of African American politics has sought to track, codify, and analyze the struggle that has been mounted, and to understand the historic and changing political status of African Americans within American society. The notion of a post-racial America is one that was birthed by the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States. However, another reality is equally compelling: that for some time now, many African American aspirants for elective office have run against race-specific issues, putting individual desires to win office above the conventionally defined collective interests of black folk. Clearly, the Obama presidential election crystallized a complexity of change that had been underway in America prior to his election. Indeed, did the Obama election signal the end of black politics? Does race remain a useful construct for framing the collective interests of African Americans? Volume III of Contours of African American Politics examines all of these questions in an effort to understand the more poignant question of the future of that which we have known as black politics."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "First published 2014 by Transaction Publishers"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: V. 1. Race and representation in American politics; title: v. 2. Black politics and the dynamics of social change; title: v. 3. Into the future : the demise of African American politics?